fong

fong

1. (Ireland, slang) a kick
   • 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, Scribner-Simon & Schuster, New York: 1996, p 147.

     'Get away from my door or I'll come out and give every one o' ye a good fong in the hole of yeer arse.'

From Latin fungus, or possibly a calque of Spanish hongo.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfoŋk/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfoŋ/
• Homophone: fonc

fong m (plural fongs)

1. fungus
2. mushroom

• (mushroom): bolet

• “fong” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fongs” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fong” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fong” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Oceanic *boŋi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀŋi, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀŋi. Compare Pohnpeian pwohng, Marshallese boñ, Fijian pogi, Rotuman pogi and Hawaiian poni.

• IPA^(key): /foŋ/

fong

1. night